David Cournapeau wrote: >> 4) SVN is very, very, popular. Lots of folks use it, they use it on all >> common platforms, and there are tons of clients for it. I work with a >> bunch of folks that really don't like a command line (for programmers, I >> think that's just plain weird, but there you go). I could never sell a >> VCS that didn't have a decent GUI client on Windows and OS-X. >> > I don't understand this argument: do your co-workers use scipy now but > would not if the code source would be kept under a VCS which has no > GUI ?
Sorry, that wasn't the point. My co-workers (and most folks) use numpy/scipy by downloading binaries, or maybe tarballs, so what VCS is used is, indeed, pretty irrelevant to most users. Would good multi-platform GUI support of the VCS make for more contributers to numpy/scipy? I don't know. At least at the numpy level the kinds of folks that are likely to contribute are probably command-line savvy, etc (though the command line on Windows really, really sucks!) My point was that there is a benefit to using a widely known and used tool that lots of folks are using for their own projects as well. I use SVN every day, and I'm far more likely to go get and look at SVN head of some open source project because of that. I'm kind of dreading that I'll soon need to figure out svn, mercurial, and who knows what other VCSs in order to keep up with the various projects I like to keep up with. The discussion here has been compelling, however. I see these benefits: 1) Better merge. svn merge does suck, so that would be great. It sounds like it may well get better, but no time soon. 2) Easier to to create sub-versions of the main tree -- experimental projects that groups of folks can work on. I started out, from reading Linus' note, thinking that that was really only beneficial for kernel-scale projects, but I now see that it could be nice for much smaller scale projects as well. I do still think scipy could probably support the few of those that will really happen with svn branches, but then we're back to that merge problem again! -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
